Grape Mundo, an Android mobile application developed by Rta Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Nashik-based software consultancy firm, is an open source app freely downloadable on Google Play Store This app helps farmers chalk out a schedule for application of inputs, based on best practices followed by progressive growers in the Nashik belt. The schedule prescribes the quantum and application date of each input, specified in terms of ‘pre-harvest interval or PHI days’.
“Every chemical or pesticide has a PHI, which is the period after an application when the residues still remain on the crop or fruit. The app tracks these intervals so that each spray is done at the right time after the PHI for the previous chemical has lapsed,” explains Samir Pandit, director of Rta Technologies. Grape Mundo is an interactive app, which also ensures that farmers adhere to the prescribed schedule. “Alerts have been set up at the start date of each application and an inbuilt alarm keeps on ringing until the farmer attends to it. The only way to silence the alarm is to tick one of the three options: Completed, Cancelled or Postponed,” he adds.
Read more about this app in the story by Partha Sarathi Biswas published in Indian Express. It also gives views of actual users of this app.
